Word: pilings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Starr got blurs on his ballistocardiograms every time a streetcar rumbled by eight floors below. To cushion out such vibrations, researchers have turned to various systems of floating the body-strapped to a board-in a pool of mercury or (Dr. Starr's choice) on a foot-thick pile of nylon blankets...
...Securities & Exchange Commission, which requires full disclosure of a company's prospects when it floats stock, realizes that this rule has been powerless to check some of the worst speculation. It has issued new restrictions to check advertising by investment advisers suggesting that previous recommendations made a pile of money for their clients, or that they have an infallible formula for beating the market. Sample advice from an ad in the New York Times last week: "Because these low-priced stocks are known only to a few-because they have tremendous future promise-the risk involved has often been...
...Catholic, carefully stayed neutral, told newsmen with a worried smile: "I'm just waiting for the Bells of St. Mary's to peal.") The 99 Catholic Congressmen (twelve in the Senate, 87 in the House), as well as Protestants from heavily Catholic districts, eyed a growing pile of mail in favor of the bishops' stand. Organization was showing through. Democratic Senator Eugene McCarthy, a Minnesota Catholic in favor of the loans, reported a suspiciously sudden burst of letters from tiny (pop. 6,000) Little Falls, Minn.; many of the writers accidentally included printed instruction sheets...
...taste of bitter Congolese defiance. In Matadi, the Congo's major port, Congolese troops turned on the 135-man Sudanese U.N. garrison with rifles, machine guns, mortars and 37-mm. cannon in a two-day battle that left two Sudanese dead, 13 wounded. The rest piled their blue U.N. helmets in one pile, their weapons in another, then marched out to be shipped back to Leopoldville in humiliating surrender...
...major part of January's trimming-$300 million-took place in retail inventories, while the factory inventory reduction of $100 million was smaller than the rate of previous months. While factory inventories have been declining, retail stocks have tended to remain high. This led economists to fear that pile-up of goods at the retail counter because of poor sales might hold off new ordering by retailers. January's figures showed that the factory inventory decline is finally slowing, and that goods are moving off the retailers' shelves...